Template:Title monthname/doc

Extracts from a page title the name of a month (January, February, March etc). Returns nothing if there is no match.

Note that the monthname in the title must be properly capitalised. "October" will be matched, but "october" or "OCTOBER" will be ignored.

Some options allow its behaviour to be configured.

Usage

Basic usage

{{Title monthname}}

This usage will return the first word in the title which matches the correctly-capitalised name of a month.

If no match is found, it returns an empty string. This allows its simple use in templates, e.g.

{{#if: {{Title monthname}}|<!-- do nothing if there is a match -->|This page's title does not include a month}}

Optional parameters

Three optional parameters are available:

1. |page=value

   This forces the template to use a title other than the current page

2. |nomatch=value

   This parameter is used to specify a message to be generate if no match is found. For example

   • Default output {{Title monthname|page=All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace}} →
   • with nomatch {{Title monthname|page=All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace|nomatch=No month!}} → No month!

3. |match=number

   If multiple month names are found, this specifies which match to return, where the first match is match= 1. If a negative number is specified then a match is returned counting from the last match. Hence match = -1 is the same as requesting the last match. Defaults to 1.

   Examples:

   • {{Title monthname|page=Events in June, July, or August|match=3}} → August
   • {{Title monthname|page=Riots in February, March, April, May, June, or July (and maybe November)|match=-2}} → July

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. Click here to see a monthly parameter usage report for this template based on this TemplateData.

TemplateData for Title monthname

Extracts a 3- or 4-digit year from the current page title. All parameters are optional.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Match Instance	match	If multiple monthnames are found, this specifies which match to return, where the first match is match= 1. If a negative number is specified then a match is returned counting from the last match. Hence match = -1 is the same as requesting the last match. Defaults to 1. Default 1	Number	optional
No match text	nomatch	If no monthname is found, output the "nomatch" value. Defaults to blank.	String	optional
Override page title	page	Specified a page title to use other than the current page. If left blank, the template will use the title of the current page Default {{BASEPAGENAME}}	Page name	optional

See also

• Template:Title year
• Template:Title year+1
• Template:Title year-1
• Template:Title year range
• Template:Title year2range
• Template:Title year2range+1
• Template:Title year2range-1
• Template:Title monthname
• Template:Title decade
• Template:Title century
• Template:Title number
• Template:Make YYYY–YY
• Template:Century name from title year
• Template:Century name from title decade
• Template:Century name from decade or year